I just listened to this AI generated audiobook and if it didn’t say it was AI, I’d have thought it was human-made. It has different voices, dramatization, sound effects… The last I’d heard about this tech was a post saying Stephen Fry’s voice was stolen and replicated by AI. But since then, nothing, even though it’s clearly advanced incredibly fast. You’d expect more buzz for something that went from detectable as AI to indistinguishable from humans so quickly. How is it that no one is talking about AI generated audiobooks and their rapid improvement? This seems like a huge deal to me.

  • LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml
    716·
    2 years ago

    Ah yes, Audio AI. I can’t wait for this rapidly-approaching future where you literally won’t be able to trust the validity of anything your senses tell you anymore

      • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        But up until this point, you see, there has always been one medium that is difficult/expensive enough to convincingly fake that it can reasonably be used as proof that something actually happened. If technology advances to the point where a video of something happening is no more convincing than a text description that it happened, and no other more sophisticated, harder-to-fake medium steps in to replace it…

        I don’t want to live in a world where the truth is anything you can convince your friends of, you feel me?

        • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 years ago

          “Up until this point” meaning maybe eighty years where unexpected events had any chance of being on film or televised, and several decades where amateur video was even theoretically possible.

          And solid corroborating evidence still barely moved the needle whenever it was footage of cops trying to kill someone.

          And what’s going to make bodycams necessary regardless is chain-of-custody demonstrating (a) the footage matching what the victims said absolutely came from the camera strapped to the chest of the accused, or (b) some motherfucker orchestrated a cover-up that demonstrates consciousness of guilt.

    • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
      25·
      2 years ago

      Imagine the day when people post videos of the president saying literally anything with pitch perfect audio voice synth

      Imagine going to prison for a generated clip of you confessing to a crime.

      • FaceDeer@kbin.social
        172·
        2 years ago

        Once the tech is that good, a recording of your confession will be useless as evidence in court.

        • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          2 years ago

          …but it is already that good? The fact that celebrities are having to come out and say it wasn’t them in an ad is proof enough that it can fool people

          You only need to fool a jury

          • FaceDeer@kbin.social
            7·
            2 years ago

            Then we’ll have to take more care with how jury trials are conducted. It’s always been possible to fool juries, that’s often a lawyer’s entire strategy.

      • Shyfer@ttrpg.network
        13·
        2 years ago

        Or imagine politicians like Trump saying the most heinous stuff and then denying it saying it’s fake or AI. How will people know? You won’t even be able to trust your eyes or ears anymore.

      • LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 years ago

        You know some people are just gonna generate that fucking locker room smell, the reek of hormones and axe body spray, to terrorize people

      • LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml
        82·
        2 years ago

        Yes, but you could tell they weren’t real. They still needed real voice actors, real sound design, studios and stages and resources. Anyone with a halfway decent rig can fake shit to a very believable degree. Even with CGI you swear is fantastic, you see its fakeness once the novelty wears off